Language and Recursion

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Lowenthal, Francis (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Lefebvre, Laurent (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Θέματα: Psychology.; Psycholinguistics.; Cognitive psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.

As humans, our many levels of language use distinguish us from the rest of the animal world. For many scholars, it is the recursive aspect of human speech that makes it truly human. But linguists continue to argue about what recursion actually is, leading to the central dilemma: is full recursion, a...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Section 1: What is recursion?
• Chapter I : Pragmatics as the origin of recursion
• Chapter II : Investigating recursion within a domain-specific framework
• Chapter III : Recursive cognition as a prelude to language
• Section 2 : Non Verbal Communication Devices, Implicit learning, Language and Recursion
• Chapter IV : Non Verbal Communication Devices, Language, Cerebral Flexibility and Recursive Exercises
• Chapter V : Computer simulations of recursive exercises for a Non-Verbal Communication Device
• Chapter VI : Implicit learning and recursion
• Section 3 : Emergence of Grammar in human and non human animal communication
• Chapter VII : Early rule learning ability and language acquisition
• Chapter VIII : Is there a brain basis of recursion ?
• Chapter IX : Primate communication: meaning from strings of calls
• Section 4 : About formal grammars and artificial Intelligence
• Chapter X : Unification and Efficient Computation in The Minimalist Program
• Chapter XI : Recursion in generative grammar
• Chapter XII : Computational Language Related to Recursion, Incursion and Fractal
• Section 5 : Philosophy, recursion and language
• Chapter XIII : Consciousness, Recursion and Language
• Chapter XIV : There is no recursion in language
• Section 5 : Synthesis of main discussions.